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brik

British  
/ brɪk /

noun

  1. a Tunisian deep-fried spicy pastry filled with fish or meat and sometimes an egg

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of brik

Arabic

Example Sentences

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In France, I saw baklava made with brik, a Middle Eastern pastry that’s like a cross between phyllo and giant, paper-thin crepes.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 30, 2023

“I need an order of the brik and saganaki!”

From Seattle Times • May 1, 2022

There was a warm tart of creamy crab ragout spiced with ’nduja in a brik shell, but it somehow didn’t work as well as the Basque txangurro that seemed to inspire it.

From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2021

That explains another dish on his menu: layers of squab breast and foie gras wrapped with cabbage leaves, and then encased in Tunisian brik dough and seared until the outside is crispy.

From Washington Times • Sep. 16, 2019

But as my train sliced through the brown landscape, I was drooling over the expectation of something else: baklava and brik.

From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2012

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